> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:04:51 -0400 > Cc: make-w32@gnu.org > > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 11:13 -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > No, I didn't explain things well. MAX_PATH on windows should be 259. > > Hm. I think the entire MAXPATHLEN thing is something that needs to be > cleaned up. > > I think a better idea would be to use the POSIX standard value of > PATH_MAX, everywhere in the code. > > Then on systems that don't support PATH_MAX we can try to find an > appropriate value elsewhere, such as MAXPATHLEN or whatever, but that > would be all contained in one place (make.h I expect) then a consistent > value would be used everywhere.
FWIW, both MinGW and DJGPP (a.k.a. DOS) builds support PATH_MAX in their respective <limits.h> header files. I agree with using PATH_MAX, because it is more standard. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
